Jazz Articles about Anna Acevedo Lyman

Anna Lyman: It's Lush

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2003

Beginning with Brent and Dennis’s “Angel Eyes,” Anna Lyman relives tradition in modernity. If that animation causes discomfort, it is due to the degree that we have shrugged off the jazz vocal traditions that make It’s Lush a valuable musical keepsake.

Lyman’s first achievement in this record is not vocal supremacy; it is the recognition that jazz vocals belong in the context of other musical players – a fact that is beautifully acknowledged in the first five of ...